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Housing starts drop to a four-year low

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Markets close mixed; New housing construction drops to the lowest level since 2020; TikTok argues against a ban in court; Car dealerships grapple with a software outage.

Transcript

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0:00.0

A mixed close close on Wall Street, I'm Henry Epp with the Marketplace Minute.

0:04.8

Markets were mixed on Thursday. The Dow Jones rose three quarters percent.

0:08.8

After briefly hitting a new record, the S&P 500 dropped a quarter percent, the NASDAQ dropped nearly 8 tenths percent.

0:16.0

May's construction of new homes dropped to its slowest pace in about four years.

0:20.3

Housing starts dropped five and a half percent, compared to a year ago, they're down 19%.

0:25.0

That's the lowest level since June of 2020, when much of the economy was still shut down due to the pandemic.

0:31.0

The owner of Tik-Toc argues in court filings that a law which could ban the video

0:35.0

platform is unconstitutional and would set a quote dangerous precedent for free speech.

0:40.2

Oral arguments in Tic-Toc's lawsuit against the federal government are scheduled for

0:43.7

September.

0:44.9

And thousands of car dealerships are grappling with the fallout from a cyber attack that hit a

0:48.9

crucial software provider.

0:50.8

CDK Global provides services that assist with sales at about 15,000 dealerships.

0:56.0

Many of its systems were offline for a second straight day today.

0:59.0

I'm Henry App with the marketplace minute.

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